This Video Has People Convinced Meghan Markle Has a British Accent Now

There's a long tradition of famous Americans moving overseas and picking up accents: See: [Madonna]'s(/about/madonna) and Gwyneth Paltrow's British twinges and, more recently, Lindsay Lohan's bizarre, vaguely Eastern European dialect. Meghan Markle, according to some, is the latest addition to that venerable list. Though this speculation has risen before, it reached a fever pitch this week, after the first episode of ITV's Queen of the World documentary aired, providing the British public with plenty of opportunities to scrutinize their newest duchess's speech patterns.

Markle's appearance in the Queen of the World two-part series so far revolves mainly around the ways in which she paid homage to Queen Elizabeth II's work in her May wedding ceremony. At one point in Tuesday's episode, Markle revisits her Givenchy wedding gown for the first time after she walked down the aisle, as it's being prepared to go on display; she discusses how she and Givenchy creative director Clare Waight Keller decided to include the national flowers of every single Commonwealth nation along the hem of her veil. It's this clip, per The Daily Mail, that has Brits wondering whether, less than a year after moving across the pond, the Duchess of Sussex is already speaking the queen's English.

In tweets viewers posted during and after the doc's airing, they compared Markle's "softer" lilt to Madonna's own adopted accent; discussed the possibility that the new royal, like Kate Middleton before her, had undergone mandatory voice coaching; and above all expressed confusion at the perceived new change. For what it's worth, these American ears can't hear much of a British accent in the former Suits star's words, so feel free to watch the above video over and over, until you're convinced one way or the other.